Take-Your-Kid-To-Work Day

Last week, we had a take your child to work day. Since Riley is 5, going on 15, I thought she would enjoy it (and she did, oblivious to the fact that most of the kids were twice her age or thereabouts). She loved riding the light rail into work, commenting at everything that passed by. She had a fun time with the activities my company had planned. They played with Google Earth, flying to some of the work sites and other fun locations. They made a string of fruit and nuts to feed to the birds. They learned how water could create electricity. They 'mined' cookies to get the chocolate chips out. They made roller-coasters to learn about potential energy changing into kinetic energy. Supposedly, a fight nearly broke out when the two roller coaster teams were talking smack about finishing first. Riley was right in the middle of it telling them they were wrong and her team was going to win and they were just being mean. Maybe it's time to teach the finer points of trash talking skills and ethics.

After sugaring them up, us parents had them back around noon. We ate lunch, then Riley colored and did some other activities (like looking out my window and telling me every person and vehicle that passed by my building) while I tried to get a little work done. We took a walk around downtown, then we headed home on the light rail - once again entertaining all the passengers with her running commentary. She was upset the next day that she didn't get to go with me again, and Asher keeps insisting that next week he will get to go to my work (kind of like 'yesterday' is anything that happened in the past). It was a fun day for Riley and I think 'Take you child to work' day is also 'Mom gets a day off' day.

Later, when in the kitchen, Riley gave a firm soliloquy on why we don't drink coffee and didn't understand why there was coffee there (I guess the kitchen is all mine).